NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 214.4, Greenbelt, MD 20771

H -- SUPPLIER ASSURANCE CONTRACT DUE 030298 POC James Debelius, Contract Specialist, Phone (301)286-0055, Fax (301)286-0341, Email James.M.Debelius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov -- Thomas Russell, Contracting Officer, Phone (301)286-2885, Fax (301)286-0341, Email Thomas.S.Russell.1@gsfc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/GSFC/date.html#5-51767-502. E-MAIL: James Debelius, James.M.Debelius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is issuing this second sources sought synopsis in order to determine if there are any small businesses capable of meeting NASA's upcoming requirements to support NASA Safety, Reliability and Quality Assurance (SR&QA) in-sight/oversight of its suppliers for all NASA Centers. Small businesses are requested to provide their name, location, and size and submit detailed information demonstrating their understanding of the work requirements identified below as well as their qualifications, capabilities, and experience and past performance history for such work. This information must be detailed because the purpose of this synopsis is to identify small businesses capable of performing this work. If no small businesses respond to this announcement or those that do respond are found to be incapable of meeting the requirements identified below, this procurement will be conducted under Full and Open Competition Procedures. This supplier assurance effort will be accomplished by maintaining an effective, timely, and independent quality program that will assure NASA is furnished supplies and services in conformance with applicable NASA contract requirements. Overlapping or interfacing requirements shall not result in duplication of Contractor efforts. Supplier assurance efforts will be coordinated to provide the most efficient and effective support at each supplier facility, especially when different centers require support at the same facility. Specifically, the Contractor shall be capable of, at a minimum, the following: (1) Providing personnel who are adequately trained, qualified, and certified in the appropriate technical requirements of NASA product procurements, system safety, and in processing, fabricating, inspecting, testing, and nondestructive evaluation techniques as applicable to and commensurate with requested support from NASA; (2) Ensuring established procedures exist for usage, control, and traceability of stamps assigned to its quality assurance representatives; (3) Performing independent inspections and tests for all supplies and services associated with issued work requests; (4) Providing maximum assurance that the proper design configuration is maintained as indicated by performance of "as-designed" versus "as-built" verification, and "as-tested" versus "as-specified" verification; (5) Assessing the supplier's use of the appropriate ISO series specifications and associated management tools used to track, document, measure, evaluate, and promote continuous improved performance; (6) Evaluating manufacturing standards, specifications, procedures, and control documentation for processes used in design, development, fabrication, assembly, testing, and inspection by NASA suppliers; (7) Evaluating coding standards, specifications, procedures, and control documentation for processes used in design, code, de-bug, integration, test, and walkthroughs/ inspections by NASA suppliers; (8) Providing personnel capable of understanding and using statistical process control techniques; (9) Providing personnel capable of understanding and using software metrics; (10) Ensuring that the supplier controls and processes nonconforming product in accordance with contract requirements. This includes certain non-deliverable tooling, test equipment, and test software that could adversely affect deliverable supplies and services; (11) Performing Mandatory Source Inspection per individual work requests; (12) Monitoring and assessing the supplier's control of its subtier suppliers for a specific project in order to obtain an overall assessment of the supplier's performance; (13) Evaluating changes to flight supplies and services and interfacing Ground Support Equipment (GSE)/facilities as well as related operations, documentation, and problems/discrepancies for impact to hazard analyses and provide recommendations; (14) Evaluating supplier's system safety implementation plan(s) to identify degree of compliance with safety requirements; (15) Continuously assessing and rating supplier and subtier supplier QA, manufacturing, test, and engineering management systems, based on the flow-down requirements directed by the upper tier supplier as a criteria, to assure compliance with NASA requirements; and (16) Maintaining a system that tracks: individual work requests, contract number, and associated subtier suppliers, supplier/subtier supplier locations, total hours expended (broken down by function and skill categories) per contract and subcontract, and performance indicators and trends for each contract and supplier, i.e., metrics. It is anticipated that this contract will have a basic period of performance for 2 years and 3 one-year options. During the first two years, the Contractor will provide this support for 4 NASA Centers. During the option years, it is anticipated that all 9 NASA Centers will require work under this contract. Throughout the life of the contract, it is anticipated that the Contractor may have to provide supplier assurance activities in support of NASA's supplier facilities, which are currently estimated at 3,700 locations throughout the United States. A cost-plus-award-fee contract type is anticipated. Work requests shall be utilized in order to specify individual requirements that the Contractor must satisfy. We currently anticipate approximately 450 work requests during the basic period of performance and approximately 1,950 work requests, if all the options are exercised, over a five year period of performance. This is not a Request for Proposal (RFP) and should not be construed as a commitment by the Government. The requested information from small businesses should be submitted within 15 days of the date of this publication to: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; Attn: Jim Debelius/Code 214.4; Greenbelt, MD 20771. If prospective small business sources have any questions, please call 301-286-0055 or send e-mail to: James.M.Debelius.1@gsfc.nasa.gov. (0043)

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